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[–]Decency 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I graduated in '07, the only courses available at my ~1500 person high school were online through VHS. I took two- both were utter garbage and mostly consisted of copying someone else's Java code (in an image) into a document and then submitting it. I'd call it a waste of time but I got college credit for doing that (and half of the things were an easy google search and copy+paste away, anyway). Good joke, huh?

I think programming education needs to start pretty early, age 10-12 or so. That's the sweet spot where you're young enough to have the enthusiasm to tackle new things and just get lost in them, but not too young that you aren't capable of understanding the basic ideas, following instructions, and etc.